Romane Hourcastagnou is the 23-year-old girl who died after jumping from a plane at 1,000 meters. after the parachute did not open.
Although the fatal event has been classified as an accident, the authorities of Strasbourg in France, where the tragedy occurred, are investigating what happened, if Romane’s equipment was altered or it was actually an accident, since she threw herself together with ten more people, who tried to help her, however, the efforts were in vain.
Witnesses to the event reported that an emergency maneuver was attempted, but that the height and speed of the fall prevented the operation from being successful in the air. In addition, those present reported that “They watched what happened with great impotence and that the impact with the ground was very violent.”
The emergency services arrived at the scene to attend to the case, however, the young woman died from the impact of the fall.
It is known that Romane had made 100 jumps over the last year, during which time he was practicing this sport.
Skydiving instructor dies after a jump
On February 22, a similar tragedy occurred on the outskirts of Houston, Texas (USA), where a skydiving instructor died from injuries sustained after his parachute failed to open during a jump with a student.
“Skydive Houston, along with the greater skydiving community at large, is deeply saddened by the loss of our tandem instructor and friend. Our sincerest condolences are extended to his friends and family. We continue to pray for a full recovery of the student of the injured tandem,” the Skydive Houston skydiving center said in a statement.
For her part, the trainee was hospitalized with serious injuries that were not life-threatening. “The instructor’s parachute did not open or collapsed at some point during the fall,” she said in a statement on Monday. sheriff of Waller County, Troy Guidry, as reported by the news network NBC News.
“He dropped his primary, and then the secondary conduit, as it opened halfway, so it didn’t go down like a straight drop. It was like 50% of the hopper, like a corkscrew,” said witness Álex Arias,
On the other hand, the company said on its website that it has a “perfect 100% safety record” and more than 50,000 jumps without injury. He added that the cause of the accident is under investigation.
“Skydive Houston has an excellent safety record, and significant injuries associated with tandem skydiving are extremely rare,” The company indicated while citing a web portal of skydiving safety statistics, which was the one prepared by the United States Parachute Association (USPA), according to Fox News.
Yecenia Morales: the notorious case of the woman who died in bungee jumping in Antioquia
One of the cases that has caused the most commotion in Colombia has been that of Yecenia Morales Gómez, the young woman who died last year when she fell into the void when was preparing to go bungee jumping on a viaduct between the municipalities of Amagá and Fredonia, in southwestern Antioquia.
The mayor of the municipality of Fredonia, Gustavo Guzmán, He assured that the practice of bungee jumping is recurrent in the place and that there are two companies that carry out this activity.
According to Mayor Guzmán, none of the companies that provide the service have the permits to carry out this practice in their municipality, nor in that of Amagá. “I immediately told the intelligence investigators to please organize this issue with the aim of pronouncing a decree because that is not prohibited even by decree,” commented the president.
In addition, he explained that to carry out extreme sport practices they must meet a series of requirements to operate and neither of the two companies met them.